Celebrity, wedding and fashion photographer Robin Roemer and Stylist Sara Medd wanted to tell a story this year — a story of guarded identities, sexual intrigue, and Hollywood glamour in a secret girls-only world in the sky. All year you’ve heard about the real lives of the Calendar Girl Models. Now it’s time to meet the characters they play in this one-of-a-kind full-color photography book that just-so-happens to also be a calendar.

Ilene Chaiken doesn't want you to buy this calendar

With so many people using online or mobile calendars these days, we wanted to make something that would be more than just a way to mark the days; something that lasted well past the heat death of the universe. It needed to be as fancy and stylish as the narrative it contains while remaining affordable.

It wasn’t easy to pull off, but nothing this good ever is, right?

This website has always been dedicated to showing how sexy our diverse community is and also how fucking talented we are, and this project (which helps ensure this site’s ongoing existence) and this year’s behind-the-scenes videos (edited by the dedicated and passionate Kelli Griggs) is a reflection of that. It’s been made possible by heaps of dedicated artists and dreamers.

Riese is the 33-year-old CEO, CFO and Editor-in-Chief of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, blogger, fictionist, copywriter, video-maker and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York City, and now lives in The Bay Area. Her work has appeared in nine books including "The Bigger the Better The Tighter The Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty, Body Image & Other Hazards Of Being Female," magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are!

Clearly this is exciting. Also: I’m into using the release of this calendar as a reason to have a party so if a bunch of lesbians want to hang out with these calendars sometime soon somewhere in Brooklyn, let’s do that.

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